Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks using 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges with Claude. MiniMax ran the largest operation at 13 million exchanges. None of the three companies have responded.

Stanford researchers proved that Claude, Gemini, Grok and GPT-4.1 can reproduce entire copyrighted novels from memory. Some models didn't even need jailbreaking.

Western Digital and Seagate confirm their entire 2026 HDD production is sold out to AI hyperscalers, with consumer prices surging nearly 50% as the storage industry pivots away from retail buyers.

Elon Musk merges SpaceX and xAI in the largest merger of all time, valued at $1.25 trillion, with plans for orbital AI data centers and a mid-2026 IPO that could raise $50 billion.

Defense startup Scout AI demonstrated its Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator directing drones and ground vehicles to find and destroy a target using natural language commands and a 100B+ parameter foundation model.

OpenAI's automated systems flagged violent gun scenarios in a ChatGPT user's conversations in June 2025. Employees urged leadership to alert Canadian police. Leadership refused. Eight months later, the user killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, BC.

Developers on Anthropic's $100-$200/month Claude Max plans report that Opus 4.6's adaptive thinking and 1M token context window consume session quotas up to 9x faster than before, with some hitting limits in 15 minutes.

Amazon Threat Intelligence uncovered a Russian-speaking threat actor using DeepSeek for attack planning, Claude for autonomous exploitation, and a custom MCP server called ARXON to breach 600+ FortiGate devices across 55 countries.

Four competing protocols from Visa, Mastercard, Stripe/OpenAI, and Google aim to control how AI agents spend money on your behalf in a market McKinsey projects at $5 trillion by 2030.

OpenClaw's GitHub security advisories jumped from ~90 to 130 in 48 hours. With 40,000+ exposed instances, a poisoned plugin marketplace, and malware targeting Mac Minis, the most popular personal AI agent is also the most dangerous.